{"id":6689,"date":"2016-09-22T09:21:43","date_gmt":"2016-09-22T13:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/drg-lands-presales-for-the-level\/"},"modified":"2016-09-22T12:55:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T16:55:44","slug":"drg-lands-presales-for-the-level","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/drg-lands-presales-for-the-level\/","title":{"rendered":"DRG Lands Presales for The Level"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: DRG has secured presales for the event thriller <em>The Level<\/em>, which is soon to launch in the U.K. on ITV1.<\/p>\n<p>DRG presold the six-part series to UTV Ireland, TVNZ in New Zealand and DBS Satellite Services in Israel. A video license has been signed with RLJE for the U.K., Ireland and North America. The drama, produced by Hillbilly Films for ITV1, stars Philip Glenister (<em>Life on Mars<\/em>, <em>Outcast<\/em>), Karla Crome (<em>Misfits<\/em>), Laura Haddock (<em>The Inbetweeners Movie<\/em>, <em>Da Vinci\u2019s Demons<\/em>) and Rob James-Collier (<em>Downton Abbey<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>At MIPCOM, DRG will also be launching sales for <em>Monster<\/em>, produced in Norway by NRK for NRK1.<\/p>\n<p>Noel Hedges, the executive VP of content and acquisitions at DRG, commented: \u201cDespite industry chatter about a saturated market, great drama with compelling story lines and a strong cast will always find a home. We are pleased to have had strong presales success with <em>The Level<\/em> and I am sure that this series will be much in demand after its initial broadcast. <em>Monster<\/em>, although not airing until 2017, is also starting to attract early buzz. It continues the strong tradition of crime thrillers from this region\u2014although relocating the action to a dark and relatively unexplored part of Norway\u2014and makes for intelligent, mysterious and visually stunning viewing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis really is a great time to be a rights-holder working in international scripted programming as broadcasters today are more willing than ever before to transmit local-language drama, as well as remake for their own audiences. Our continued success with non-English language drama, as well as drama formats, demonstrates that quality and universal themes are the key to international success.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: DRG has secured presales for the event thriller The Level, which is soon to launch in the U.K. on ITV1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":6690,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1329,322],"class_list":["post-6689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-drg","tag-the-level","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>DRG Lands Presales for The Level - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/drg-lands-presales-for-the-level\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"DRG Lands Presales for The Level - 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